the mirror of erised and harry

[Simon]

No: HPFGUIDX 10695

Ffion wrote: "To go right back to Book 1 - does anyone know what the
inscription around the mirror actually means?  I've figure out that Erised
is desire backwards, but then I've come to a brickwall"

You are on the right track. Erised = desire. The rest of the inscription is
written in a similar manner. The job is to work out how to break up the
text.

You end up with something like (I cannot be bothered to get the book out to
check the total accuracy of this): I show not your face but your hearts
desire.


Ffion wrote: "I noticed when I first read the first book that Harry was
living in Godric's Holow when James & Lily got murdered - and JKR pointed
out in a reent itnerview that this was significant. And, since Harry is
destined to be something special [dumbledore hinted as much at the end of
the Philosopher's Stone when he wouldn't tell Harry why Voldemort wanted to
kill him and not LIly] - so is Harry the heir to Godric Gryffindor - like a
good version of tom Riddle being the heir to Slytherin?

If not this, then what would Dumbledore nt tell Harry until he's old enough
to cope with it?"

Interestingly the quote is something along the lines of: "When you are old
enough you will know."
It does not say: "Well, er... um..., when you get a bit older, say 15 no
er... make that 16, then I will tell you."

The quote almost, to my mind, is suggesting Harry will not need to be told
but instead that he will work it out himself or just one day wake up with
the answer.



Simon
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